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① Artwork:
Study of woman with gun gesture
In this artwork, the figure—one of the artist’s signature femme fatales—reclines backward, nude in a chair. Only partially rendered, the subject forms her hand into a gun shape, pointing it into her mouth. Tropes like this frequently appear in Michelle’s works, subverting ideas surrounding feminine identities.
With their visceral and expressive use of oil pastels, Michelle Uckotter’s paintings and drawings feature doll-like women in the transitional spaces of homes, such as hallways, attics, and basements. Her subjects reflect tropes found in the Hollywood horror genre while balancing the canon of painterly modernism with contemporary feminine aesthetics.
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③ Artist:
With her visceral and expressive use of oil pastels, Michelle Uckotter’s paintings and drawings feature doll-like women in the transitional spaces of homes, such as hallways, attics, and basements. Her subjects reflect tropes found in the Hollywood horror genre and heighten their most suspenseful scenes. Uckotter also infuses the canon of painterly modernism—including art historical references such as the Nabis, Munch, and Hans Belhmer—with today’s aesthetics of contemporary femininity.
Michelle Uckotter was born in 1992 in Cincinnati, OH, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Uckotter received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD (2015).
Uckotter has mounted solo exhibitions at Marc Selwyn in Los Angeles, CA (2022), King’s Leap in New York City, NY (2021), t293 in Rome, Italy (2021), and Springsteen Gallery in Baltimore, MD (2021).
Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Freddy in Harris, NY (2023); Maria Bernheim Gallery in Zurich, Switzerland (2023); Ginny on Frederick in London, UK (2022); Lomex in New York City, NY (2022); Lubov in New York City, NY (2022); Sebastian Gladstone in Los Angeles, CA(2022), and elsewhere.
In this artwork, the figure—one of the artist’s signature femme fatales—reclines backward, nude in a chair. Only partially rendered, the subject forms her hand into a gun shape, pointing it into her mouth. Tropes like this frequently appear in Michelle’s works, subverting ideas surrounding feminine identities.More
- Framed: 12.2 x 16.2 x 1.5 in.
- Signed on recto
